Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Coronavirus Reminds Us Why We Must Guarantee Health Care To All [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)Towards different directions, certainly, but none of them stretched any existing boundary. The United States trembled near the brink of real revolution in 1932. Poring through newspapers from that and the previous year is extremely instructive. Mr. Roosevelt prevented this, while some other figures, such as the Kingfish, Mr. Long, sought to ride it to confiscation of wealth and its redistribution. Reagan changed very little, really, he just empowered a political and social reaction long underway against what were considered by many 'excesses' of the sixties and the counter-culture. Nothing he did or said cannot be found in wide circulation for decades previous.
"From Bernies perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they dont want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."
"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden